PORCINE

hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish

(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; “piggish table manners”; “the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father”; “swinish slavering over food”

gross, porcine

(adjective) repellently fat; “a bald porcine old man”

porcine

(adjective) relating to or suggesting swine; “comparison between human and porcine pleasures”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

porcine (comparative more porcine, superlative most porcine)

Of or pertaining to pigs.

(derogatory) Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.

Anagrams

• coprine, poncier, preonic

Source: Wiktionary


Por"cine, a. Etym: [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork.]

Definition: Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks." G. Eliot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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IMPROVISED

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